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A college professor (Om Puri) in India whose interview with a once-famous poet (Shashi Kapoor) takes him into a whirlwind of unexpected problems involving his subject's feuding wives and the scholar's own family, in Ismail Merchant's feature directing bow "In Custody." Then, 30 years' residence in New York wasn't enough to help a famous French author (Jeanne Moreau) let go of a war-torn past. When the Paris apartment of her youth goes up for sale, she mounts an obsessive mission to purchase it, in Merchant's "The Proprietor." Sean Young, Sam Waterston co-star. 4 hrs. total. Widescreen; Soundtracks: Hindi and Urdu, English; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; bonus short "Mahatma and the Mad Boy" (1974); featurettes; theatrical trailer.